Hype is misleading, this we know

Rating: Null/10 (24 October 2003)

I'm amazed at the number of reviews that, first of all, felt this was a zombie movie. I guess the previews made it come off as such? I honestly never saw any, just had a friend tell me that this movie was good and left it at that.
I just saw this last night and I really could not have been more horrified by the whole thing. The reviewers who claim that this is not "real" horror and who say that if you think this film is worthwhile then you aren't a "real" horror fan need to rethink their definitions here. This isn't a zombie movie in the traditional sense. It isn't a slasher flick. It isn't a boogey man story and it isn't "bad guys gonna git you"... if you want that, there are plenty of Wes Craven movies to choose from and the majority of them are actually really well done.
There is a difference between grindhouse, gore, and pych. horror and this movie delivers the sort of slow build, effectively shot, claustrophobic feelings that horror buffs should love if they actually like HORROR movies, which at their best are haunting and psychologically brutal, and not just fans of gore and shock.
I'm also surprised that none of the reviews I've seen have seemed to pick up on the much broader strokes in this film about war, death, human nature, and the moral implications of it all, which were so clear as to almost be heavy handed, I thought.
I think most of the reviewers got a heavy dose of pre-press and felt mislead by it all. Well, hype is misleading. Don't subject yourself to it and you might find yourself able to actually ENJOY a movie now and again without having someone else's idea of it force fed to you before hand.
Trailers are just commercials that want you to buy a movie instead of Pepsi.